Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,010 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Scarface (83 version), read more Heat, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, any film noir

Likes: Movies, LP's, James Bond, true hollywood memoirs, The Bret Easton read more Ellis Podcast, every sixties british pop band, every 80s new wave band - in fact just generally all eighties songs, even the really shit ones, and of course, Tom Friggin' Cruise!

The Best Movie You Never Saw: No Escape

Posted 7 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Review: The Good Liar

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An elderly, smooth-talking con man (Ian McKellen) romances his way into the good graces of a lonely widow (Helen Mirren) intending to rob her blind, but is she as naïve as she seems? REVIEW: I’m not sure I’ve ever...

Review: The Report

Posted 7 years ago

This is a repost of our Sundance 2019 review. PLOT: Daniel Jones (Adam Driver), an ambitious Senate staff working for Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening), is put in charge of an investigation into the CIA’s controversial Detention and Interrogation Program,...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Posted 7 years ago

Chris A couple of years ago, we used to have this featured called “The Good, The Bad & The Badass”, where each week I profiled some of my favorite “badasses” from both behind and in front of the camera. Folks...

Review: Ford V Ferrari

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed at TIFF 2019. PLOT: The year is 1966 and Ford sales are in the toilet. Company VP Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) launches a plan to buy Ferrari, only to be double-crossed at the last minute, leading to permanent...

Review: Doctor Sleep (Bumbray’s take)

Posted 7 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's Review HERE PLOT: Thirty nine years after surviving the Overlook Hotel, a now-adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is a recovering alcoholic, living a low key life as an orderly in a small town. His newfound sobriety reawakens...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Big Hit

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Midway

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A dramatization of the Battle of Midway, one of the most decisive naval battles of World War 2, taking place only six months after Pearl Harbor, and helping turn the tide of the war in the Pacific Theater. REVIEW:...

Review: Primal

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A big-game hunter for zoos (Nicolas Cage) books passage on a shipping freighter to transport his animals, including a rare white jaguar, only to find the ship is hauling ever deadlier cargo, a former special forces operative (Kevin Durand)...